U. S. Steel Announces Results of Successful Voluntary Early Retirement Program.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United States Steel Corporation announced today that approximately 500 employees have elected to retire under a Voluntary Early Retirement Program (VERP) offered to certain non-represented Headquarters and Operations employees in the United States who met age and years-of-service criteria. The retirement date for most...

Australian early retirement tax biases prior to July 2007 and the likely effects of tax reform on retirement plans.
1 Introduction The demographic prognosis for the twenty-first century is that all national populations will age structurally and most in the developed world will ultimately decline in size. Australia's structural ageing is less pronounced than that in many other countries, but it will nevertheless experience reduced population...

Your Complete Guide to Early Retirement.
Your Complete Guide to Early Retirement Sandy Baker Atlantic Publishing Inc. 1405 SW 6th Avenue, Ocala, FL 34471 9780910627931 $24.95 www.atlantic-pub.com This step-by-step plan for early retirement offers in-depth advice on three key tips to early retirement: managing expenses...

Caterpillar Offers Retirement Incentive to Eligible Production Employees.
PEORIA, Ill., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Caterpillar Inc. today announced it is offering a voluntary early retirement incentive package to approximately 2,000 production employees in Illinois Caterpillar facilities (Aurora, Decatur, Joliet, Pontiac and the Peoria-area) as well as in Denver, Colorado; Memphis, Tennessee; and York, Pennsylvania. "We...

Hill-Rom Reports First Quarter Revenue of $350 Million and Announces Further Actions to Address Challenging Economic Environment.
-- Worldwide sales increased 2.6 percent in spite of pressure on North American capital sales. -- Further cost savings from consolidation of some operations, voluntary early retirement program and additional organizational restructuring will reduce company's U.S. workforce by about 6 percent resulting in estimated savings of $12...

Planning for an early retirement.
Byline: Madhu T (##include msid=2459375,type=9 ##) Some would rather head for the mountains. Others, the sea. Given a choice, who wouldn't like to hang up their boots sooner than the customary retirement age of 60? Quit the rat race and do one's own thing at...

Planning for an early retirement.
Byline: Madhu T (##include msid=2459375,type=9 ##) Some would rather head for the mountains. Others, the sea. Given a choice, who wouldn't like to hang up their boots sooner than the customary retirement age of 60? Quit the rat race and do one's own thing at...

Bell offers retirement incentive to unionized employees.
MONTREAL, Quebec, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bell Canada announced today it will offer a retirement incentive to approximately 1,500 qualifying employees represented by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers' Union of Canada. "This initiative supports Bell's strategic imperative to achieve a competitive cost structure," said George Cope, President...

Mitsumi Phils. axes 4,400 in Bataan, Cebu.
A large Japanese firm with operations in Bataan and Cebu has laid off 4,400 of its staff, and asked the rest of its workers to retire early as it scales down production amid plunging global sales of personal computers, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) reported. ...

Lacson offers to work for a Puno campaign.
Opposition Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson, one of the bankable opposition contenders in the 2010 presidential race, yesterday said he is willing to give way and instead act as the campaign manager of Chief Justice Reynato Puno in the event he decides to seek the presidency. Lacson said...